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Fleet Prison former jail in London, England. Rebuilt after it was destroyed in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, again after the great fire of 1666, and once more after the Gordon riots of 1780, it was finally demolished in 1845-46. After the 17th cent. it was notable as a debtors' prison. Fleet marriages were clandestine and irregular ceremonies performed at Fleet Prison by debtor clergymen. Although not illegal, the system was so abused that it was abolished in the reign of George II.

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Fleet prison (London) was in use from the time of the Norman Conquest until the reign of Queen Victoria. It held those who owed money to the crown.

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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature 2003, originally published by Oxford University Press 2003. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Fleet Prison, in the neighbourhood of the present Farringdon Street, London, was built in the time of Richard I. From 1640 it served mainly as a debtors' prison, until demolished in 1848, and it figures as such in Dickens's novels, notably Pickwick Papers.

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